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Ronald Reagan
U.S. President who famously demanded, 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!'
1989
The fall of the Berlin Wall, marking the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet leader whose policies of glasnost and perestroika contributed to the fall of the Wall.
Stasi
East German secret police known for extensive surveillance and attempts to quell dissent.
Checkpoint Charlie
Best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.
Solidarity
Polish trade union movement that played a major role in the demise of Eastern European communism.
Erich Honecker
East German leader who predicted the Wall would stand for 50 or 100 more years before its fall.
Willy Brandt
West German Chancellor whose policy of Ostpolitik aimed to improve relations between East and West.
David Hasselhoff's 'Looking for Freedom'
Song symbolically associated with the Fall of the Berlin Wall and performed by the artist at the New Year's Eve 1989 celebration in Berlin.
1961
Construction of the Berlin Wall commenced by East Germany.
1945
End of World War II and beginning of the division of Germany.
Trabant
The car that became a symbol of East Germany and was visible in large numbers during the opening of the Wall.
Brandenburg Gate
Iconic neoclassical monument in Berlin, near which the Wall fell.
Four Power Agreement on Berlin
1971 agreement between the US, USSR, UK, and France that improved travel and communications between East and West Berlin.
Helmut Kohl
Chancellor of West Germany during the fall of the Wall who became the Chancellor of a reunified Germany.
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